[quote=joec]Was wondering about this…Would it be “better” / “easier” to get to a top university/school if everyone in your high school isn’t as TOP/Overachieving?
Like I would assume if everyone from the top CV high school applies to say Stanford, they aren’t going to take a ton of people from the same school right?
Course, it doesn’t mean they’ll take someone from the lower high school neither, but I’m assuming the admissions will start getting glassed eyed after reading about the 7th Nguyen student from the same CV school and why they should be admitted…[/quote]
Great question. At least some of the UC’s do have limits of how many kids they’ll accept from the same high school. My daughter was accepted at every top school (public and private) in California (and some top private schools out of state) except for UCLA. She was told by the admissions department that they’d already accepted their limit from TP. I have no idea about private schools like Stanford. She was accepted, but chose otherwise.
I doubt it would be a problem for many out of state schools, it’s just not that likely that there would be that many kids applying from a particular school. That’s just a guess.
On the other hand, would a not so good school provide as good of an environment to get into one of the top schools? Maybe for some kids it wouldn’t matter. For others, I think the quality of the high school really does matter.
